Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the talk of peace and love, bullets flew in Havana only six hours before the inauguration as a raiding party of cops shot it out with a longtime enemy of Batista's, Orlando Leon Lemus. Known all over Cuba as El Colorado (Red, the color of his hair, not his politics), Lemus was one of the most pistol-happy of a pistol-happy tribe: the Cuban "revolucionarios," who plotted against Batista in the '30s and early '40s, then became government-coddled racketeers under Batista's successors. Last week, tipped off that El Colorado...
...winning, the Crimson became the first undefeated team in Ivy League play since Dartmouth's 1948 sextet. The varsity ended the regular season with a 16-2-1 record, and goes to Colorado unbeaten in its last 13 games...
From the Eli point of view, the possibility of sending a humiliated Crimson out to the Colorado championship tourney is inviting indeed. At any rate, with Yale playing before the usual highly-partisan crowd, a repeat of last Saturday's rout is hardly likely...
Despite coach Cooney Weiland's statement that "the boys won't start thinking 'tournament' until after that Yale game," too many thoughts of Colorado could be dangerous when a bulldog bent solely on revenge has yet to be beaten...
...preparation for next week's Colorado tourney, the Crimson has scheduled a practice session with the Boston Bruins at the Waston Rink Monday afternoon. Captain Coolege said last night that the team "hopes to make amends for last year's unsuccessful Wester tour and to re-establish the prestige of Eastern hockey...